stain
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Platner being able choose his successor would stain that successor with Platner’s problems for the rest of the campaign!
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Former England and Manchester United star Gary Neville said FIFA's decision represented "a stain" on the World Cup.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
It’s a true honor to be a small stain on the history of this illustrious show.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
The tile that they landed on has six layers of brighteners, soaps and stain and odor fighters that activate and interact with each other only when they get wet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
I glance back guiltily at Mom, who is pale and tired looking, trying to scrape a stain off her Waffle House uniform with her fingernail.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
Close to 40 years later, liquid Tide offered better dissolvability and improved technology to wash grease and oil stains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
“That will likely be one of the stains of his life that will always be remembered.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
On top of the ongoing fire alarm issues, Newman said residents have lost a on-site maintenance person, and she has noticed stains appearing on the carpets and marks on the lift.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026
In laboratory tests, the system not only lightened stains but also helped protect teeth.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 23, 2026
My brown fitted pants were heavily patched and the shirt I was wearing probably hadn’t been washed, well, ever if the dark yellow stains covering it were any indication.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
George Mallory is remembered with a stained glass window at St Wilfred's Church in Mobberley.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
From the floor to ceiling, more than 20,000 books were crammed every which way into shelves they’d built and stained themselves nearly 20 years before.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
Property damage looks like stained carpeting, unusual paint colors or damaged appliances.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
Blood stained the white limestone rocks, blending in with the West Bank's distinctive reddish soil.
From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026
They were all from his gentlemen’s club or from various banks, except for one thin, stained envelope with no return address but which bore many colorful postmarks and exotic stamps from distant lands.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
During weekly phone calls, I’d catch her in the middle of staining a table, reupholstering a chair, or rewiring a chandelier she’d found at a flea market.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2024
After thinly slicing and staining tissue from 38 normal pancreatic samples onto hundreds of sequential 2D slides, the researchers developed CODA, a machine-learning pipeline, to analyze and reconstruct the slide images into digital 3D images.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2024
Earlier this year he found that the CSF of a 21-year-old piano prodigy diagnosed with schizophrenia produced an enigmatic staining pattern.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2024
This technique works to process and generate images of different cell types as well as different imaging modalities, such as those taken using fluorescence or histological staining.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2024
Juice is starting to leak from it, staining the hall carpet, but she can't bring herself to throw it away.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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